Facebooking

I like Facebook, but I think Facebook has exacerbated my mid-life crisis. In searching for old high school friends, college roommates and former colleagues I have discovered something really disturbing...most of my friends CHILDREN are the ones using Facebook! This just drives home the fact that I am...old. I think a special Facebook application should be developed for mid-lifers, like myself. To be really successful with my age-group, there would need to be a few different features, though. For example, there should be a photo edit function built right in that allows you to 'touch up' your profile pictures, thereby eliminating those pesky visible signs of aging. There should also be a warning device that alerts you when a prospective 'friend' has turned into a rabid right-wing politico, health food advocate or has overachieving children they constantly talk about ('I know she's only 22, but she is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in nuclear-rocket science-applied mathematics from NASA ' this week. Next week, she is blah, blah, blah'). There also needs to be a rule about overuse; for example, 20 posts in an hour is a lot...especially when they are obscure and random comments about...nothing. Facebook needs to suggest to these users an alternative outlet to express themselves...poetry, perhaps? Or, maybe just their own blog!